I shall always feel respect for every one who has written a book, let it be what it may, for I had… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The earth with yellow pearsAnd overgrown with roses wildUpon the pond is bent,And swans divine,With kisses drunkYou drop your headsIn the sublimely… — Friedrich Holderlin Copy Share Image
The moon has set In a bank of jet That fringes the Western sky, The pleiads seven Have sunk from heaven And… — Sappho Copy Share Image
Distance... is like futurity. A dim vastness is spread before our souls; the perceptions of our mind are as obscure as those… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
the more humdrum aspects of life do not make for gripping reading. To render them compelling, a writer must describe the universal… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Alas! we know that ideals can never be completely embodied in practice. Ideals must ever lie a great way off--and we will… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
There's a boy across the river with an ass like a peach; alas I was no swimmer and lost my Clementine. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
But alas for the dreams that round us play! / For the plans of mortal making! / And alas for the false… — Phoebe Cary Copy Share Image
Any assassination is an assassination. It's cold, it's terrible. I'm against any capital punishment. Only the Lord has the right to take… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
Alas, by the time Fate caught up with my life, Chance had it all planned. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
The animals share with us the privilege of having a soul Alas, what wickedness to swallow flesh into our own flesh, to… — Pythagoras Copy Share Image
Alas, all too often, the dream turns into a mud puddle. I am left looking at a disaster. What to do! Keep… — Jules Olitski Copy Share Image
Is that a birthday? 'tis, alas! too clear; 'Tis but the funeral of the former year. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The bright days of my youthThey were full of hopeThe great journey that was before me thenWas what was destined to be,… — Enya Copy Share Image
I ask but one thing of you, only one, That always you will be my dream of you; That never shall I… — Amy Lowell Copy Share Image
Alas, how right the ancient saying is: We, who are old, are nothing else but noise And shape. Like mimicries of dreams… — Euripides Copy Share Image
Alas, how wretched is the being who depends on the stability of public favour! — Sarah Siddons Copy Share Image
Alas, we are the victims of advertisement. Those who taste the joys and sorrows of fame when they have passed forty, know… — Sarah Bernhardt Copy Share Image
But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband? — Mary Astell Copy Share Image
Sometimes writers say true things about the overall nature of publicity, promotion, and the publishing industry; but alas, not always. — Teresa Nielsen Hayden Copy Share Image
I will frankly confess that after passing a few weeks in the valley of the Marquesas, I formed a higher estimate of… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they are unfortunate,… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
